Completely Conspicuous 507: Half and Half

I'm joined by guest Jay Breitling as we discuss the year in rock music so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ
- Back for the attack
- Kumar: Just back from Philly
- Coming up in December: We pick our favorite music of the decade
- Apple is doing away with iTunes, but it's not that big a deal
- Some people are freaking out, but there are other options
- It was good for making playlists
- Kumar: Still need downloads to build radio show playlist
- People don't need to own music anymore
- Kumar: Use free versions of Spotify and YouTube to stream
- Somebody stole a bunch of Radiohead outtakes, band responds by putting it up for sale on Bandcamp
 - Breitling's curb vinyl haul
- The Dio hologram tour is ongoing
- Our verdict: Stay home
- The festivals keep going
- The Woodstock 50 debacle
- Our verdict: Festivals suck
- Breitling may want to choke you
- Reality show people are annoying
- Ja Rule explains it all
- Both of us have gone to fewer concerts this year
- We like watching the rock videos on the YouTubes
- Whither Arsenio?
- Next week: Our favorite albums of the year so far

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #274: June 7, 2019

What's in a name? That which we call a playlist by any other name would sound as good. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with guys' names in the title in hour 2. It's a good collection of songs, although there aren't any that mention Heisenberg.

This playlist will make you say its name:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Redd Kross - Beyond the Door/Beyond the Door
Clinic - Laughing Cavalier/Wheeltappers and Shunters
Dumb - Knot in My Gut/Club Nites
Trinary System - When the Dust Settles/Lights in the Center of Your Head
The Minus 5 - My Collection/Stroke Manor
Skyjelly - Hello My Friend/We Pull the Stars Over Our Heads Like Covers
Telekinesis - Running Like a River/Effluxion
Jeff Tweedy - Ten Sentence/WARMER
Dude York - Falling/Falling
Sass - Spoiled by Rotten/Chew Toy
Where We Sleep - The Desert/Experiments in the Dark
CJ Ramone - One High One Low/The Holy Spell...
L7 - Proto Prototype/Scatter the Rats
Black Mountain - Pretty Little Lazies/Destroyer
Circa Waves - Times Won't Change Me/What's It Like Over There?
Bleached - Hard to Kill/Don't You Think You've Had Enough?
La Fille - Alright Already/Alright Already

Hour 2: Names
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel/Drums and Wires
Pixies - Ed Is Dead/Come On Pilgrim
The Replacements - Alex Chilton/Pleased to Meet Me
Mission of Burma - The Ballad of Johnny Burma/Vs.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Albert Goes West/Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Butthole Surfers - Edgar/Independent Worm Saloon
Swirlies - Jeremy Parker/Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
Frank Black & the Catholics - Billy Radcliffe/Pistolero
David Bowie - John I'm Only Dancing/The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip/Daydream Nation
Speedy Ortiz - Gary/Major Arcana
Krill - Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts Into Tears/Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts Into Tears
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Calvin/Acme
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (Theme from Superfly)/Superfly soundtrack
Beastie Boys - Johnny Ryall/Paul's Boutique
Run DMC - Peter Piper/Raising Hell
Brainiac - Vincent Come On Down/Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Paw - Max the Silent/Death to Traitors
  

Stuck In Thee Garage #273: May 31, 2019

Healthcare is a big part of our lives. With any luck, you can avoid going to the hospital or seeing a doctor, but at some point, you'll probably need to. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played healthcare-related songs in hour 2.

The high-five worthy playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
CJ Ramone - Blue Skies/The Holy Spell...
Amyl and the Sniffers - Gacked on Anger/Amyl and the Sniffers
Versing - Violeta/10000
Sebadoh - Phantom/Act Surprised
Teenage Wrist - Believe in the Wrong Things/Counting Flies EP
Helms Alee - Interachnid/Noctiluca
Black Mountain - Licensed to Drive/Destroyer
Silversun Pickups - Freakazoid/Widow's Weeds
The Dream Syndicate - Black Light/These Times
Elva - Ghost Writer/Winter Sun
Mike Adams at His Honest Weight - So Faded/There Is No Feeling Better
Greys - Arc Light/Age Hasn't Spoiled You
Tacocat -  The Problem/This Mess Is a Place
Guided By Voices - The Pipers, the Vipers, the Snakes!/Warp & Woof
Wand - XOXO/Laughing Matter
The 1865 - Right Now/Don't Tread on We
Fontaines D.C. - Liberty Belle/Dogrel
PUP - Closure/Morbid Stuff

Hour 2: Healthcare
The Rolling Stones - Dear Doctor/Beggars Banquet
The White Stripes - The Nurse/Get Behind Me Satan
Thee Oh Sees - Palace Doctor/Mutilator Defeated at Last
The Fiery Furnaces - Navy Nurse/Widow City
Van Halen - Somebody Get Me a Doctor!/Women and Children First
UFO - Doctor Doctor/Strangers in the Night
The Who - Dr. Jimmy/Quadrophenia
Destroyer - Saw You at the Hospital/Ken
Holy Wave - The Nurse's Tale/Adult Fear
The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm an Adult Now/Love Junk
Hot Snakes - I Need a Doctor/Jericho Sirens
The Replacements - Take Me Down to the Hospital/Hootenanny
Spitzz - Take Me to the Hospital/Single

Stuck In Thee Garage #272: May 24, 2019

Movies and music go hand in hand. Selecting the right music to accompany your film is a crucial part of the process. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from movie soundtracks in hour 2. Obviously, I tried to stick with more left-of-the-dial selections as opposed to "The Heat Is On" or some shit like that. This collection of songs is more like brain candy.

The cinematic playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
IDLES - Mercedes Marxist/Single
Imperial Teen - We Do What We Do Best/Single
Versing - Offering/10000
Skyjelly - Terra Nostra/We Pull the Stars Over Our Heads Like Covers
Greys - Kill Appeal/Age Hasn't Spoiled You
Mini Mansions (feat. Alison Mossheart) - Hey Lover/Guy Walks Into a Bar...
Titus Andronicus - Tumult Around the World/An Obelisk
Teenage Wrist - Mary/Counting Flies EP
Hash Redactor - Good Sense/Drecksound
WIVES - Waving Past Nirvana/Single
Middle Kids - Real Thing/New Songs for Old Problems
Sebadoh - Celebrate the Void/Act Surprised
Pile - Your Performance/Green and Gray
Mike Adams at His Honest Weight - Pressing Mesh/There Is No Feeling Better
Just Mustard - Frank/Single
Matt Surfin' & Friends - VibroChamp/Matt Surfin' & Friends
Cosmonauts - Faces for Radio/Star 69

Hour 2: Soundtracks
The Folk Implosion - Natural One/Kids soundtrack
The Replacements - Unsatisfied/Adventureland
Dave Grohl - How Do You Do/Touch
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bellbottoms/Baby Driver
Pavement - Painted Soldiers/Kids In the Hall: Brain Candy
Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts/Suburbia
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Hold Tight/Grindhouse: Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof
Revels - Bring Out the Gimp/Comanche - Music From the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights/Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
Mudhoney - Overblown/Singles
Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight/This Is Spinal Tap 
Max Webster - Diamonds Diamonds/High Life
Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong/The Virgin Suicides
The Tragically Hip - Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)/The Sweet Hereafter
Split Enz - I Got You/Beautiful Girls
The Cure - In Between Days/Grosse Pointe Blank
Pulp - We Are the Boys/Velvet Goldmine

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #271: May 17, 2019

If you weren't there, Y2K anxiety was real. Twenty years ago, there was much hype and hullabaloo about the impending crisis that would ensue on Jan. 1, 2000 when all the computers would go haywire. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1999 in hour 2. It was the end of the century and the millennium and everybody was bracing for impact. When in reality, the biggest menace was Shasta McNasty.

The Napster-proof playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Hash Redactor - Step 2: Success/Drecksound
Sebadoh - Raging River/Act Surprised
Black Mountain - Boogie Lover/Destroyer
The Mountain Goats - Doc Gooden/In League With Dragons
Weyes Blood - Andromeda/Titanic Rising
Tacocat - Little Friend/This Mess is a Place
Remo Drive - The Grind/Natural, Everyday Degradation
Slow Pulp - New Media/Big Day EP
Cosmonauts - Medio Litro/Star 69
Craig Finn - Something to Hope For/I Need a New War
Jenny Lewis - Do Si Do/On the Line
Jeff Tweedy - Empty Head/WARMER
Wand - Thin Air/Laughing Matter
White Denim - Head Spinning/Side Effects
Silkworm - Dust My Broom/In the West reissue

Hour 2: 1999
The Sheila Divine - Hum/New Parade
Built to Spill - The Plan/Keep It Like a Secret
The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman/The Soft Bulletin
Sloan - Friendship/Between the Bridges
Gigolo Aunts - The Big Lie/Minor Chords and Major Themes
Sebadoh - Flame/The Sebadoh
Beck - Get Real Paid/Midnite Vultures
Chris Cornell - Flutter Girl/Euphoria Morning
Ben Folds Five - Army/The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Songs: Ohia - Hot Black Silk/Axxess & Ace
My Morning Jacket - O is the One That is Real/MMJ-Songs:Ohia Split EP
Wilco - Can't Stand It/Summerteeth
Piebald - Giddy Like a Schoolgirl/If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains For Us All
Frank Black & the Catholics - I Love Your Brain/Pistolero
Fu Manchu - Godzilla/Eatin' Dust

Stuck In Thee Garage #270: May 10, 2019

Selling out was once considered a no-no for rock musicians. But now it's one of the few ways for them to make a living. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that were used in commercials in hour 2.

The commercialized playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Ride - Future Love/This Is Not a Safe Place
Fontaines D.C. - Television Screen/Dogrel
Wand - Walkie Talkie/Laughing Matter
Sebadoh - Stunned/Act Surprised
Dead Bars - Lucky/Regulars
Outtacontroller - Trash On (alt. version)/TRASH ON!!! A Tribute to P. Trash Records
Diat - W.I.G.T.D.W.M.?/Positive Disintegration
Squid - Houseplants/Single
Graveyard Club - It Hurts/Goodnight Paradise
Deep State - Under the Gun/The Path to Fast Oblivion
Broken Social Scene - All I Want/Let's Try the After (Vol. 1)
Tacocat - Hologram/This Mess is a Place
Weyes - Everyday/Titanic Rising
Night Beats - Eyes on Me/Myth of a Man
Pile - A Bug On Its Back/Green and Gray
L7 - Uppin' the Ice/Scatter the Rats
Guided By Voices - Blue Jay House/Warp and Woof

Hour 2: Sellouts
Gary Numan - Cars/The Pleasure Principle
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Rush - Fly By Night/Fly By Night
The Kinks - Picture Book/Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Pixies - Gigantic/Surfer Rosa
Metric - Help I'm Alive/Fantasies
The Heavy - How You Like Me Now/The House That Dirt Built
Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)/Mothership Connection
Run-D.M.C. - It's Tricky/Raising Hell
Beastie Boys - Sabotage/Ill Communication
Queens of the Stone Age - Smooth Sailing/...Like Clockwork
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary/Love
Jane's Addiction - Stop/Ritual De Lo Habitual
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?/Singles Going Steady
Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy/Raw Power

Stuck In Thee Garage #269: May 3, 2019

As long as there's been music, there's been other people doing cover versions of it. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great covers in hour 2. They're hotter than a Steven Seagal guitar solo.

The coverlicioius playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Courtney Barnett - Everybody Here Hates You/Single
L7 - Burn Baby/Scatter the Rats
Black Mountain - Future Shade/Destroyer
Matt Surfin' and Friends - Life of Luxury lol/Matt Surfin' and Friends
Cosmonauts - Seven Sisters/Star 69
OCnotes - Better Days/Single
Quivers - You're Not Always On My Mind/Single
Craig Finn - Magic Marker/I Need a New War
Jeff Tweedy - Family Ghost/WARMER
Slow Pulp - High/Big Day EP
Elva - Tailwind/Winter Sun
Uranium Club - Grease Monkey/The Cosmo Cleaners
Fitness Womxn - Easy/American Idylls
PUP - Morbid Stuff/Morbid Stuff
Ex Hex - No Reflection/It's Real
Kiwi Jr. - Murder in the Cathedral/Football Money
Silkworm - Into the Woods/In the West reissue

Hour 2: Covers
The Clash - Police On My Back (The Equals)/Sandinista!
Minutemen - Dr. Wu (Steely Dan)/Double Nickels on the Dime
Ty Segall - St. Stephen (Grateful Dead)/Fudge Sandwich
Zwan - Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden)/Honestly
Eagles of Death Metal - Save a Prayer (Duran Duran)/Zipper Down
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Dirty Old Town (Pogues)/Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead
Fred Schneider - Coconut (Harry Nilsson)/Just Fred
Telekinesis - On a Plain (Nirvana)/SPIN Presents Newermind: A Tribute Album
The Wildhearts - Waiting Room (Fugazi)/Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before, Vol. 1
Superchunk - Mad World (Corrosion of Conformity)/Break the Glass
Rollins Band - Are You Ready? (Thin Lizzy)/Get Some Go Again
Sugar - Armenia City in the Sky (The Who)/Copper Blue reissue
Soundgarden - Stray Cat Blues (Rolling Stones)/Jesus Christ Pose
Van Halen - You're No Good (Clint Ballard)/II
R.E.M. - Toys in the Attic/Live at Rockpalast 10/2/85
The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)/Crazy Rhythms
Sloan - On the Road Again/Transona Five (Canned Heat/Stereolab)/Recorded Live at a Sloan Party!

Stuck In Thee Garage #268: April 26, 2019

A decade seems like a long period of time, but it doesn't take long for one to slip past. Seems like we were just getting ready to enter the teens of this century; now we're months away from 2020. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2009 in hour 2. In the time since then, we've all gotten older and some of us have gone from fresh-faced comic relief on sitcoms to multiple-genre-dominating superstars (Hint: It's not Chevy):

This playlist will not be going to community college:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Titus Andronicus - (I Blame) Society/An Obelisk
L7 - Fighting the Crave/Scatter the Rats
The 1865 - Buckshot/Don't Tread on We
PUP - See You at Your Funeral/Morbid Stuff
Beck - Saw Lightning/Hyperspace
Guided By Voices - Bury the Mouse/Warp and Woof
Broken Social Scene - Wrong Line/Let's Try the After (Vol. 1)
New Age Healers - Satellites/Debris
Fontaines D.C. - Hurricane Laughter/Dogrel
White Denim - Shanalala/Side Effects
Pile - On a Bigger Screen/Green and Gray
Calexico and Iron & Wine - Father Mountain/Years to Burn
Jenny Lewis - Little White Dove/On the Line
Cherry Glazerr - Ohio/Stuffed & Ready
Piroshka - Run for Your Life/Brickbat
Bob Mould - Sin King/Sunshine Rock
Flat Worms - Plastic at Home/Into the Iris

Hour 2: 2009
Mission of Burma - 1, 2, 3, Partyy!/The Sound, The Speed, The Light
Them Crooked Vultures - Mind Eraser, No Chaser/Them Crooked Vultures
Mastodon - Oblivion/Crack the Skye
Jarvis Cocker - Angela/Further Complications
Art Brut - Slap Dash for No Cash/Art Brut Vs. Satan
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning/Humbug
The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother/Horehound
Japandroids - Rockers East Vancouver/Post-Nothing
Johnny Foreigner - Ghost the Festivals/Grace and the Bigger Picture
Dananananaykroyd - Watch This!/Hey Everyone
Patterson Hood - Heavy and Hanging/Murdering Oscar (and other love songs)
Dinosaur Jr. - Over It/Farm
The Von Bondies - Pale Bride/Love, Hate, and Then There's You
Metric - Gimme Sympathy/Fantasies
St. Vincent - Actor Out of Work/Actor
The Raveonettes - Bang!/In and Out of Control

Stuck In Thee Garage #267: April 19, 2019

Life's full of mysterious occurrences that are never explained. That's part of the fun, I suppose. Sometimes mysteries can be a little more sinister, however. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about mystery in hour 2.

The clue-packed playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Fontaines D.C. - Chequeless Reckless/Dogrel
PUP - Full Blown Meltdown/Morbid Stuff
The 1865 - Peggy/Don't Tread on We
Broken Social Scene - Remember Me Young/Let's Try the After
Charly Bliss - Capacity/Young Enough
Good Fuck - Secret Meetings/Good Fuck
Royal Trux - Every Day Swan/White Stuff
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - Pleasure/ZAM
White Denim - Small Talk (Feeling Control)/Side Effects
Guided By Voices - Coming Back From Now On/Warp and Woof
Jesus & the Brides of Dracula - Turning Teeth/Under the Silver Lake soundtrack
Lady Lamb - Even in the Tremor/Even in the Tremor
Heart Bones - Little Dancer/Live at the Four Seasons
La Fille - Piff/Alright Already
Telekinesis - Suburban Streetlight Drunk/Effluxion
Blessed - Rolled in Glass/Salt
Balms - Hands Out/Mirror

Hour 2: Mystery
Hot Snakes - Mystery Boy/Automatic Midnight
U-Men - Mystery Pain/U-Men
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee/Murder Ballads
Mac McCaughan - Mystery Flu/Non-Believers
Gordon Downie - Mystery/Coke Machine Glow
Spoon - The Mystery Zone/Transference
Elvis Costello - Mystery Dance/My Aim is True
The Pretenders - Mystery Achievement/Pretenders
Those Pretty Wrongs - Mystery Trip/Those Pretty Wrongs
Drive-By Truckers - The Wig He Made Her Wear/The Big To-Do
The Black Angels - Bad Vibrations/Phosphene Dream
R.E.M. - What's the Frequency, Kenneth?/Monster
The Tragically Hip - Locked in the Trunk of a Car/Fully Completely
Robert Plant - Mystery Title/Pictures at Eleven

Stuck In Thee Garage #266: April 12, 2019

The concept of betrayal is as old as time. Somebody's always screwing over someone else for various reasons: power, love, jealousy, greed, stupidity. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about betrayal in hour 2.

This playlist knew it was Fredo, too:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
PUP - Free at Last/Morbid Stuff
Pile - The Soft Hands of Stephen Miller/Green and Gray
White Denim - Hallelujah Strike Gold/Side Effects
Nine Inch Nails - Coffin on the Dancefloor/Strobe Light
Nanami Ozone - The Art of Sleeping In/NO
Products - Nude Review/On the Dotted Line
Weyes Blood - Everyday/Titanic Rising
Alex Schaaf - Drive On/Armistice
Ex Hex - Rainbow Shiner/It's Real
White Lies - Jo/Five
Jonny Kosmo - Married to the Gun/Jonny Kosmo
Herzog - Little Bugs/Me Vs. You
FEELS - W.F.L./Post Earth
Sharkmuffin - Receptionist/Gamma Gardening
Brad - Buttercup/Shame
Greg Dulli - Isn't It a Pity/Atlantis - Live at Triple Door
Lo Fidelity Allstars (feat. Pigeonhed) - Battleflag/How to Operate with a Blown Mind

Hour 2: Betrayal
The Afghan Whigs - Blame, Etc./Black Love
The Rolling Stones - Lies/Some Girls
Paw - Death to Traitors/Death to Traitors
Ozzy Osbourne - Goodbye to Romance/Blizzard of Ozz
Black Sabbath - Changes/Vol. 4
Neil Young - Down By the River/Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Sloan - Backstabbin'/Action Pact
Joyce Manor - Fighting Kangaroo/Million Dollars to Kill Me
The Posies - Everybody is a Fucking Liar/Amazing Disgrace
Interpol - Obstacle 1/Turn On the Bright Lights
Frightened Rabbit - Poke/The Midnight Organ Fight
Nirvana - All Apologies/MTV Unplugged in New York
Frank Black and the Catholics - Do You Feel Bad About It?/Frank Black and the Catholics

Stuck In Thee Garage #265: April 5, 2019

Machines are as much a part of our lives as air and water. They're so integrated into everything we do that we don't even notice them half the time. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about machines in hour 2. It's even gotten to the point where we rely on a machine to perform law enforcement and provide fried chicken.

The finger-lickin' good playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Nine Inch Nails - Slide to the Dark Side/Strobe Light
Broken Social Scene - Can't Find My Heart/Let's Try the After (Vol. 2)
Goon - Datura/Single
Tacocat - Grains of Salt/This Mess is a Place
Unturned - Headcrush/Sink
Modest Mouse - Poison the Well/Single
Daniel Norgren - Let Love Run the Game/Wooh Dang
Night Beats - Let Me Guess/Myth of a Man
Illuminati Hotties - I Wanna Keep Yr Dog/Single
Versing - Tethered/10000
Charly Bliss - Chatroom/Young Enough
Ex Hex - Diamond Drive/It's Real
La Fille - My Help/Alright Already
FEWS - Limits/Into Red
Kiwi Jr. - Nothing Changes/Football Money
Telekinesis - A Place in the Sun/Effluxion
Mike Krol - Blue and Pink/Power Chords

Hour 2: Machines
James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine/Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang
The Cult - Love Removal Machine/Electric
Bob Mould - Star Machine/Silver Age
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine/The Catalogue
Brainiac - I Am a Cracked Machine/Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
The Nation of Ulysses - Perpetual Motion Machine/Plays Pretty for Baby
Parquet Courts - Pretty Machines/Content Nausea
The Tragically Hip - Machine/Man Machine Poem
Chris Whitley - New Machine/Din of Ecstasy
Pixies - Bone Machine/Surfer Rosa
The Replacements - Answering Machine/For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
The Dambuilders - Bending Machine/Ruby Red
The Flaming Lips - Drug Machine/In a Priest Driven Ambulance
Tin Machine - Tin Machine/Tin Machine
Kyuss - Green Machine/Blues for the Red Sun